Julien Gavreau

Julien Gavreau (2 June 1765-13 August 1847) was a general of France.

Biography
Julien Gavreau was born on 2 June 1765 in Aix-la-Chappelle in the Kingdom of France to a middle-class bourgeois family. Gavreau was made the colonel of a regiment of National Guard troops in 1793, and he was sent to the front lines under Georges-Posthume Lebon. In the Battle of Sorbey, his regiment suffered heavy losses in combat with the Austrian Empire, and he continued to command troops during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.